Richard Brent

Richard Brent (1757-30 December 1814) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia's 17th district from 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1799 (succeeding Richard Bland Lee and preceding Leven Powell) and from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding Powell and preceding Thomas Claiborne), as well as a US Senator from 4 March 1809 to 30 December 1814 (succeeding Andrew Moore and preceding James Barbour). He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Richard Brent was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1757, and he worked as a lawyer before serving in the House of Delegates in 1788, from 1793 to 1794, and from 1800 to 1801. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1801 and in the US Senate from 1809 to 1814, when he died in office.